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8-month-old chews mobile charger wire pin connected to socket in Bengaluru, dies

  •   Wed, Aug 02 2023 11:09:33 PM

Bengaluru, Aug 2 (IANS): An eight-month-old baby has died of electrocution after she chewed the pin of a mobile charger wire that was connected to a switchboard socket.

The incident happened in Siddarada village of Karwar taluk in Uttara Kannada district in Karnataka on Wednesday.

The deceased -- Sanidhya Kalgutkar, was the daughter of Santhosh Kalgutkar and Sanjana Kalgutkar.

According to the police, the mobile charger was left connected to the socket and the switch was not turned off.

The baby who got hold of the charge wire started chewing the mobile charger wire pin and got electrocuted.

The family members had immediately shifted her to the district hospital but the doctors declared the baby brought dead.

Her father, Santhosh Kalgutak, works as a contract worker with Hubballi Electricity Supply Company (Hescom) and after coming to know about the incident, he had collapsed at the workplace.

He was admitted to the hospital while the body of the girl child had been shifted to the mortuary.

Sanidhya was the third child of the couple.

The family members were busy in arrangements for one of the girl children's birthday party on Wednesday.

The police have registered a case and taken up investigation.

 
  

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  • Rita, Germany

    Thu, Aug 03 2023

    sad.This is simply carelessness of home people.When one knows there is a small child goes around ,have to be carefull with everything electric connections leaving around ,or scissors ,knive etc.Even a hramlos thing can turn dreadful with a small child.and a mobile charger connected in socket switched on ,?no words.Hope parents will be not charged with negligence police.Heartfelt sympathy to family.Now hope noone will put the fault one to the other.It will not help now baby is succumbed ,she will not come back.May her soul rest with angels.

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  • Ravi, Udupi

    Thu, Aug 03 2023

    Ayoo Devare

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  • Amma, Manipal

    Thu, Aug 03 2023

    An OEM charger of any phone will never leak electricity more than 12 volts. Companies go to great lengths to make sure their products are electrically isolated from the mains voltage under any circumstances.This must be some cheap replacement charger.

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  • Sunil, Mangalore

    Sat, Aug 05 2023

    As per IS standards anything above 30milliamps is sufficient to kill a person. Chargers have 2000milliamps currents and mouth is a very conductive place closer to the brain. DC has no zero crossing so it is anytime dangerous

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  • Rems, Mangaluru

    Thu, Aug 03 2023

    I dont understand what kind of mobile charger it is. A typical mobile charger carries a DC current of not more than 10 volt.

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  • Fernandes, Mangalore

    Thu, Aug 03 2023

    Due to cost cutting and to reduce the weight of charger, transformer are taken out from now a days chargers. Transformer is the main part isolating mains supply (Primary Voltage 220)to secondary supply 5V). The low voltage is purified(Converted to DC3.5~5V DC) to make suitable to use for charging the phone which is safest way/practice. The transformer is the main part protect the electric shock in secondary side. Unfortunately flimsy semiconductors are used in the place of transformer which are the high risky component to pass the primary voltage to secondary, thus causing burst of mobile while charging or electrocution.

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  • Rudolf Rodrigues, Mumbai -Mangalore

    Thu, Aug 03 2023

    Very true; many local generic chargers may not be even having any safety mechanism in case of sudden power surge or shorting leading to full supply from the input point! Moreover, this place, due to third-grade power utility company, often gets high voltage fluctuations anytime, due to which many equipments/appliances conk off in absence of a voltage stabilizer; unlike places like Mumbai!!

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  • Rudolf Rodrigues, Mumbai -Mangalore

    Thu, Aug 03 2023

    Looks like they were using a cheap generic charger, which are very notorious for causing mishaps!!

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  • Rudolf Rodrigues, Mumbai -Mangalore

    Thu, Aug 03 2023

    RIP! Very unfortunate and tragic incident; empathize with the family members!! BTW; something is missing here as the output voltage of a normal mobile charger (~5V DC) should not be enough to kill a baby!!

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  • Dr Kusuma Kumari Gunji MBBS DGO DNB, Nellore/Kodyadka

    Thu, Aug 03 2023

    So sad Feeling sad Always be careful of electrical equipment's in the hands of children

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  • Rudolf Rodrigues, Mumbai -Mangalore

    Thu, Aug 03 2023

    First understand how anybody, even a baby, can die from coming into contact with the output of a normal mobile charger unless it was delivering unaltered live voltage from the supply or because of some natural event like lightning which led to a sudden surge in power output!!

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  • Jossey Saldanha, Raheja Waterfront

    Thu, Aug 03 2023

    Rest in Peace ...

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